カレーの肉にく






Featured Kanji
(つくる・サク)
make

Vocabulary

  • — curry
  • — meat
  • — dinner
  • — to make
  • — plan to; intend to
  • — so; therefore
  • — station
  • — front; before
  • — supermarket
  • — to go
  • — but; however
  • — always
  • — to buy
  • — to exist (inanimate); to have
  • — I; me
  • — excuse me; sorry
  • — where
  • — store; shop
  • — person
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — now
  • — back; behind
  • — new; fresh
  • — to cut
  • — to say
  • — here
  • — a little
  • — to wait

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜つもりです (intend to) Dictionary form + states a plan or an intention: what someone means to do. (“I plan to make curry for dinner.”)
  • 〜ています (in progress) attaches to the て-form and describes an action that is going on right now, like the English ‘-ing’ form. (“The store clerk said, ‘Right now, we are cutting fresh meat in the back.’”)
  • 〜から (because) at the end of a clause gives the reason for what follows: ‘because A, B’. The reason clause comes first and may end in the polite form. (“I wanted to buy fresh meat, so I waited here a little.”)

English

Meat for Curry

I plan to make curry for dinner.
So, I went to the supermarket in front of the station.
But, the meat I always buy is not there.
I asked the store clerk, “Excuse me, where is the meat?”
The store clerk said, “Right now, we are cutting fresh meat in the back.”
I wanted to buy fresh meat, so I waited here a little.